But nothing has quite as much impact as actually seeing the things you’re talking about. In this video, photographer Jay Mallin shows us the place in Virginia where not one but two men were struck by drivers when trying to cross a four-lane road, a couple of hours apart on the same day. In both cases, the injured pedestrians were charged by the police with the offense of “careless interference with traffic.”

Mallin’s video does a great job of illustrating just how bleak the landscape is for pedestrians, and just how absurd our current priorities are. Watch.